The 10th Garrison Unit is leaving Nagoya bound for Merek in Java. I'm hoping the additional troops will put the advance back on track. If I can ever save up enough PP's I'll add to the boots on the ground there.

Sampit is looking like it's going to go into a drama stage soon. Jim has some LCU's seemingly headed for Sampit and I'm thinking he thinks he can take it back or something. So I've got the 48th Recon Rgt headed for Sampit and they are only a couple of days away. I think w/ the addition of the additional troops maybe I can hold Sampit for a while. I'm looking into getting some Lilly's or similar to do some ground pounding of these two Allied LCU's. Maybe that will help.

Here's a Tracker report on the resource history of the Japanese Home Islands. Supplies are somewhat stable but everything else is in freefall. It's not looking good yet because the loads of resources and oil hasn't yet arrived from the outlaying spots. But on the other hand, I've been getting a steady stream of resources from Hokkaido and Shikuka without interruption since the beginning of the game and the levels in the H.I. is still in free fall. Maybe this is a harbenger of what lies ahead. Not a good omen. Maybe I should start the negotiations for peace. Nah, there's more war to be waged yet.

I've been using TF 23 to do the naval bombardment of Port Moresby and they are returning to Buna after last nights gig and I've already refueled them from the AO in the hex w/ them and I COULD use the other half of their ammo on another bombardment but that would leave them naked w/o any ammo and that doesn't "feel" right. So I'm content to make trips and use only 1/2 their ammo per trip. That way if they should have to dash off and attend to a different task they will at least have SOMETHING to shoot back w/. They use a tremendous amount of supply when they re-arm and I have 5 AKE's at Buna to re-arm them and just below the TF display you'll find a display showing the supply of the AKE's so far. I may have to send one or more of them to Truk to get more supplies and that means I'll need an escort for the AKE going to Truk so I'd best start the roundup of a descent PB or something similar for that task. I like to plan ahead.

Not much traffic moves through Nagoya so I'm going to move the shipping engineers from Nagoya to Hakodate. I figure that's a high traffic spot if ever there was one and maybe we'll get more throughput, more bandwidth. Come to think of it, you can get a much higher bandwidth through a parallel port than you can through a serial port.....maybe I should use more ports to download the goodies from the ships. What a concept. Why didn't I think of that?

TF 41 is docked at location code named Cinnamin Poo and is loading resources but there's a complication. Cinnamin Poo is one of those places that has a resource center but has a resource drain in that there's a HI center there too. So I have to maintain a certain amount of fuel and resources to keep it producing. So I'm planning on leaving a couple thousand resources there as a maintenance level and whenever the level is high enough to pay for the trip then I'll be back for more.

Here's a case where the escorts have to be escorted. All these DD's loitered a couple of days at Balikpapan waiting to be re-armed w/ DC's and nothing happened so I'm escorting them to Bubble Drop for some DC's. It's a bigger port w/ an AKE there and I'm hoping to be successful in this little adventure.

Okay, we've got some drama here. Jim has advanced his carrier Hermes to within range of my land-based air and I've just got to respond in a massive way. The Zero's at Oosthaven are set on escort and the Kates are set on naval attack and I've double checked to ensure that the carrier planes are on naval attack and all the float planes are pointed at the Allied TF and I think everything is ready to launch. We'll probably have some combat report about this. We'll see.

I found another Allied ship further north of the Allied carrier group. I'm not sure where she's headed but I don't have any ships to chase after this one yet. Maybe I can do a better job keeping her in sight though. Find out where it's going and be there before it gets there hopefully.

The 77th Inf Rgt is leaving Keijo outbound for Mersing in Malaya. I'm hoping that adding these additional troops will help the troops there already hold the line because they are seriously outnumbered as it is. Only the lack of supply is hindering the Allies as it is.

Nauru and Ocean Island have both dried up as a good place to get resources. I'm going to have to let them lay fallow for a while to get a big enough pile to make a trip worthwhile. There's some sources near Singapore that I'm investigating. All I have to do is invade to get them. I'll get back to you on that.